Pentagon Tells 35000: Prepare to DeployMilitary.com - 5-8-07The Pentagon has notified more than 35,000 Army soldiers to
be prepared to deploy to Iraq beginning this fall, a move that would allow
commanders to maintain the ongoing buildup of troops through the end of the
year if needed.

Cheney To Tour Mideast, Seek Stability In Iraqcbs4denver.com, CO - 5-8-07WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney is reaching out
to moderate Arab leaders for help in bringing stability to Iraq, a
mission that will include pleas for postwar support for minority party
Sunnis. Cheney departs Tuesday on a weeklong mission ...

The leadership crisis engulfing
the World Bank began with talk of favoritism ...

"And how
embarrassing is this? 'Time' magazine released its list of the 100 most
influential people in the world. President Bush is not on the list. Isn't that
amazing? However, supermodel Kate Moss is! And here's the scary part -- Kate
Moss actually has a better plan for getting us out of Iraq." - Jay leno

"Actually,
my favorite part of the [GOP debate last week] was when Chris Matthews asked,
'Who does not believe in evolution?' And Sam Brownback, Mike Huckabee and Tom
Tancredo all raised their paw." - Jay Leno

"You can
pay an escort to come to your home, get naked, and get a massage, and you
haven't broken any laws, assuming you stay on your stomach." - Montgomery
Blair Sibley, defense lawyer for Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged D.C. Madam

Bush 101

There could be
a brand of Bush 101 taught in business schools soon if James Hoopes, the Murata
Professor of Ethics in Business at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., gets his
way. Just last week, he landed a publisher for Hail to the CEO: The Failure of
George W. Bush and the Cult of Moral Leadership. His premise: President Bush, a
Harvard University M.B.A. grad,
is proof that business schools focus more on leadership than on management.

George is
an oilman, Condi had a Chevron tanker named after her because she sat on their
board for ten years, and our VP is a military industrialist. We wonder why gas
costs a fortune and we are at war? At least when Jimmy Carter was president, we
could all afford peanuts. -
DemocraticUnderground

"This is
going to be great. Not for her, but for the rest of us it's going to be great.
Up until this point, wearing underwear was Paris' idea of confinement." -
Jimmy Kimmel on Paris Hilton going to jail

This artist's
illustration provided by NASA shows what the brightest supernova ever recorded,
known as SN 2006gy, may have looked like when it exploded. The star 'is a
special kind of supernova that has never been seen before,' the discovery team
leader Nathan Smith of the University of California at Berkeley told The
Associated Press. 'It blew the core of the star apart, blew it into smithereens,
sending all those heavy metals into space' at a speed of about 9.3 million miles
per hour, Smith said. And it has been shining at levels brighter than other
supernovae for several months, Smith said. The discovery was first made last
September by a graduate student in Texas.Photo/NASA, Chandra X-Ray Center,
M.Weiss